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Five national championships in a school year are not extraordinary for the ACC. Since expanding in 2004, the league has averaged 4.5 titles, with a record eight in 2009-10. But given which championships ACC teams won, and how the conference built upon its football resurgence, the just completed 2014-15 year was exceptional, indeed. Start with men’s basketball, where the league was enduring its longest Final Four drought, four years, since forming in 1953. Duke not only cured that ill but also earned its fifth NCAA title, part of a 17-5 tournament record fashioned by the conference’s six qualifiers, all of which advanced one round, five of which made the Sweet 16. The 17...

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